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Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology

Experimental Field

[Translate to Englisch:] Pic:ExperimentalField_1_Mariela_Tent Experiment

Tent Experiment with wild bees and plants inside the tents

[Translate to Englisch:] Pic:ExperimentalField_1_Boden

Experiment to extract the soil fauna with special emergence trap

[Translate to Englisch:] Pic:ExperimentalField_2_Apple trees

Apple trees in pots

[Translate to Englisch:] Pic:ExperimentalField_3_Apple trees_Exclousure

Pollination experiment: Crips bags over apple flowers to controll the pollination

[Translate to Englisch:] Pic:ExperimentalField_4_Habitat underground

Special tubes for underground nesting animals

Nesting site (Insect hotel) for stem nesting wildbees, waps and theirs parasitoids

 

Nesting sites for carvity nesting wildbees, waps and their parasiods[
snail shells as nesting sites for insects
different materials with different diameters as nesting sites (left: brick, right: wood)
A mason bee female (Osmia cornuta) on a brick
Mason bees (Osmia cornuta) are nesting in carvities like stems and drill holes
A mason bee female (Osmia cornuta) on reed internods
[Translate to Englisch:] PiC:ExperimentalField_5_Trap nests

Trap nests with reed stems for stem nesting bees, wasp and their parasitoids. Some stems are closed with clay by bees.

[Translate to Englisch:] Pic:ExperimentalField_6_Osmia bicolor on reed internodes

Osmia bicolor -female- on reed internodes

A vertical wall of loam as nesting site habitat